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Not everyone "got it", Smash. Quit being an ***.

Not everyone "got it", Smash.

Really? It looked more to me like everyone "got it", but you crazily leapt to the conclusion that it somehow required more than barely watching the show with one eye in a drug addled stupor to do so. Let's review, shall we?

Woman wants man, tells him wife is a bad fit for him and that she is a better fit. Woman seduces man.

Wife is pregnant.

Woman, who could not possibly know she is pregnant, what with EPT Pure Blue Easy not available for 2000 more years, shows up apothecary seeking abortion potion, saying that she would like a potion that does not taste strongly.

GAWWWLEEEE, Jimmy-Bob, Why's she needin that, then?

Perhaps the people you hang out with are that ******* stupid, which would obviously explain their choice of association, but no one posting on this thread is anywhere near the smashed in the head with pipe wrench comatose state required not to "get" that subtle piece of plot twist.

Huggles.

So obvious that she didn't realize what was going on until she saw the previews from next week.

And I'm sure there are a number of others who also didn't "get it", but because you're being such a prick about it are keeping their mouths shut.


Look. You can call me names all day long. Whatever. But did it ever creep into your angry little brain that sometimes when you bash me, you end up bashing other people as well? You've effectively called Pikko an idiot because apparently she's not up to Smasharoo intelligence standards or something...


Despite your abnoxious statements, it *was* pretty subtle. You had to get that she was holding her belly. You had to get that the woman was selling an abortion potion (you could completely miss this if you didn't notice the belly holding. It's not like they said "this will end your pregnancy"). You had to then also realize that the combination of the statements about how it could be mixed into tea and not noticed and that the slave didn't take anything to help with the bleeding involved (plus her own expression) indicated that this was something she intended for someone else and not her.


You can be an *** about it, but I'm betting there were a heck of a lot of people who didn't make the connection right away.

I'm with Smash on this one, Gbaji. It wasn't exactly subtle. The moment the apocathary said, "Ah, you caught it early" and Gaia responded with, "Umm...yes" anyone with half a brain figured out what was up.

So, yeah, your assuming that no one but you got it? Basically more of your typical "See? I'm smarter than everyone here!" posturing. Maybe you weren't trying to be deliberately insulting, but considering the nature of the Asylum, I find that unlikely.

And can I say that I'm finding it strange that pretty much everyone except me hates Servillia? I mean, really. Yeah, she went around the bend at some point, but the woman had just and righteous cause for her anger at Atia and Ceasar.

First, Atia hires thugs to spread libelous graffiti for the deliberate purpose of forcing Ceasar to dump Servillia.

Then, when Ceasar does dump her (after she waited 8 years for him to get back from Gaul), he does it coldly and slaps Servillia around a bit while he's at it.

So Servillia worms her way into Octavia's affections as a way of trying to get information about Atia and Ceasar, in response to which, Atia has her hired thugs attack Servillia's litter, kill her guard, and strip her and cut off her hair on the street--after which, Atia shows up at Servillia's house full of phony "sympathy" for her "friend."

Honestly, she was perfectly justified in plotting against Atia and Ceasar. I was hoping she would succeed in poisoning Atia, and Atia's response to that poisoning put even more righteous cause for rage on Servillia's side of the scale.

If I were to apply the term "witch" to anyone on this show, it would be Atia--the woman appears to be completely Teflon, and that annoys my sense of karmic justice. What goes around needs to come around and hit that ***** full in the face. Marc Antony marrying her daughter doesn't begin to cover what she's got coming to her.

Huh!? How does "You did figure out who the abortion potion is for, right?", magically transform into me assuming that no one but me figured it out? I was specifically responding to Tares post. Nothing more. If anything, I'm assuming that she did "figure it out", hence the question. If I was assuming the opposite, I'd have written about how she must have missed this point and then gone off about how obvious it was and anyone with half a brain would have gotten it, and then gone into a detailed description of her "evil plan".

Like what Smash did...


Yes. I could also have simply stated "Well. It sucks that evil slave chick is going to slip an abortion potion into Pullo's wife's tea and ruin her day...". I figured it would be nicer to avoid an out and out spoiler. I also figured that some people might not have gotten it, and figured that would be a subtle way to introduce the issue into the thread without pounding people over the head.


Silly me. I guess I should have been an *** about it instead.

Ok I still have like 5 more wordy posts to read but I'd just like to clear up that I did NOT need the previews to tell me who the potion was for. I was referring to the previews because Smash said, "In fairness, I think he was making the overly trite 'M Knight Shamalanadingdong' supposition that the potion is for Vorenus' daughter, and not Pullo's wife."

While I shouldn't have replied to this simply because now that I read it again he was obviously being sarcastic towards gbaji, that was the reason for my referring to the previews. I got all weepy because the thought of Eirene losing her baby to that ***** was just too much for my fragile motherly brain.

Ok I still have like 5 more wordy posts to read but I'd just like to clear up that I did NOT need the previews to tell me who the potion was for.

Of course you didn't. You speak English and aren't blind and deaf.

Although, I'd imagine Gbaji will argue that SURE NOW you say that, after the cat's out of the bag...

Something nobody has brought up yet....

What will happen to the Aventine by end season?

Vorena is now basically in the espionage business for Memmio against her own father. What will Lucius do when he finds out everything that Vorena is hiding and doing? Kill her? Lose self control and kill himself?

They created a strong confrontation between Titus and Lucius, will it go back there?

This week's episode set up a lot of plots that can lead to utter destruction. The marriage between Antony and Octavia, the corruption of Vorena, the abortion potion, Pullo having extra marital affairs with a slave woman whom Eirene despises.

Ah yes, drama to ensue.

Least we forget Octavia ever finding out her mother hired the hit on Jocasta's family and herself.

Someone posted earlier about a 10 episode seasons, Season 1 had 12, lets hope season 2 has just as many. Waiting forever and a day for 10 episodes makes one go crazy.
-- this was episode 7 btw.. so if there are to be only 3 more... i think i'll /cry

Edited, Mar 6th 2007 6:14am by borntolandhard

Sure, Pullo has a lucky face.. but from what I gather (still havn't seen 1st season) he was once shown to be a total psycopath as well... Just as Vorenus was being prtrayed a shoert time ago. it really just seems that their characters are constantly bouncing from opposite states to another... interesting play on character building. If that slave is trying to poison Erieni and does it; I do see Pullo become a "son of Hades" himself.

I miss the old "kill everyone that looks at me funny" Pullo.

I feel the same way. I found myself talking to my tv, like Pullo could hear me "Goddammit Pullo can't you see this is what she WANTS you to do!!"

Which sort of makes you think who Gaia really is..... anyone who can get an upper hand on a very well trained killing machine is more than just your average brothel mistress... or perhaps I'm reading further into it.




No problem there. Sex and debauchery was fine and dandy. Free to have sex with your slaves all you want.

Poking my head in from the main ffxi forum to give a O.O to Jophiel's post count. Nearly 30k posts man, that is quite the accomplishment. I'd have to find a random item that nobody would ever click and spam a post there for a few months to see anything near that many. Anyone have that count beat?

He should just do Mark Antony and get it over with.

I'm just depressed that the whole series is coming to an end. Why, HBO, why???